(newspaper unidentified) · 8 July 1972

CP-1972-045

Bomb Booby Trap Kills Palestinian Guerrilla Leader

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — A Palestinian guerrilla leader was killed here today by bomb booby trap that wrecked his sports car as he started it up. His organization, the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, blamed the Israelis for the killing and vowed to avenge his death with “a most ruthless strike.”

The victim, Ghassan Kanafani, 36, was the chief spokesman for the front, which had accepted responsibility for the Lod airport massacre in Israel and the hijacking of three Western airliners to Jordan in 1970. The blast also killed Kanafani’s niece, Lamiss, 15, who was in the car with him. Kanafani was a novelist well known in the Arab world as well as an editor.

The front statement, calling him a martyr, claimed his death was the Israeli reprisal for the May 30 airport massacre at Tel Aviv because, it said, some Western newspapers had identified Kanafani as the mastermind. Kanafani issued a statement after the massacre in which the front accepted responsibility for the attack.

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Masthead not readable on the scan. The label on the slide read: [no masthead on clipping] — Single scan, one cut column, read at 2.5x–3x magnification. — No masthead and no date line appear anywhere on this clipping — it is a single cut column. The internal evidence supports Maria's label: the dateline reads “BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)” and the lede says Kanafani “was killed here today,” so this is a same-day story. Ghassan Kanafani was killed Saturday 8 July 1972. Date is carried from Maria's label, not from the page.

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